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“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert…

WASHINGTON — On April 19, Medicare Administrator Seema Verma took the podium at the White House's daily coronavirus briefing to announce that the Trump administration would begin tracking outbreaks and deaths at long-term care facilities nationwide — and publish the numbers for everyone to see.The effort would begin within days, federal officials promised.More than two…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The government agency responsible for whistleblower complaints said it has determined there are "reasonable grounds" to believe the Trump administration's decision to remove a former government scientist from his post was done in retaliation, his attorneys said Friday.Attorneys for Dr. Rick Bright…

A U.S. military service member who works at the White House campus and serves as a valet to the president has tested positive for coronavirus, but President Donald Trump has since tested negative, a White House official said. The valet is part of a team that serves the president his lunch and Diet Cokes among…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.  Sign up here.The Justice Department has sided with a Virginia church suing Gov. Ralph Northam after police threatened a pastor with jail time or a $2,500 fine for violating lockdown restrictions by holding a service on Palm Sunday – marking the latest incident…